Weather reports still say Tropical Storm Emily will impact South Florida by sometime Friday, which means now is the time to prepare your cell phone and home communications plan in case the storm causes power outages or other problems.
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It should be another steamy hot day, with feels-like temperatures of more than 100 degrees.
Friday's forecast also calls for partly sunny skies with a 40 percent chance showers and storms. Highs in the mid 90s, lows in the upper 70s.
The weekend...

What's left of Tropical Storm Emily may make a comeback.
In its 2 p.m. tropical outlook on Friday, the National Hurricane Center gave the system, now an area of low pressure, a 60 percent chance of redeveloping over the next two days.
Although it...

Just in time to greet the busiest stretch of the season, two new tropical waves have emerged in the Atlantic.
Neither one poses an immediate threat to the U.S. coastline.
One, however, bears watching over the coming days simply because it’s...

For the second time in its life, Ophelia has been upgraded to a tropical storm.
The system, which has strengthened considerably in the past few hours, now is projected to intensify into a hurricane by Saturday and potentially threaten Bermuda.
The projected path remains well clear of the U.S. coastline.
At 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Ophelia was about 180 miles northeast of the Leeward Islands, lumbering northwest at 7 mph with sustained winds of 50 mph. Earlier, its maximum winds had been 35 mph....

Say goodbye to what was once a powerful Hurricane Ophelia.
The system downgraded from a tropical storm into a "post-tropical cyclone" on Monday morning, as it moved into the cooler waters of the North Atlantic, theNational Hurricane Center said.
Ophelia was one of two storms this season that died and came back to life, with the other being Tropical Storm Emily in August.
After being attacked by wind shear, what was then Tropical Storm Ophelia was pronounced dead on Sept. 25. Two days later, it...

The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Emily, which struck the island of Hispaniola Thursday, has degenerated into a tropical low after colliding with the island's mountains. Forecasters said they have not pronounced Emily dead yet:"THERE IS STILL A

It looks this morning like the siege of hot and humid weather we've endured for much of the summer is beginning to break up. Forecasters at NWS/Sterling are calling for these mid-80s temperatures to persist for most of the 7-day...

The remnants of Tropical Storm Emily - what's left after her collision with the mountains of Hispaniola Thursday - are given a 60 percent chance of re-organizing into a tropical storm as they drift north toward the Florida coast. Here's what the National...

Central Maryland could see a few showers and thunderstorms along with 90-degree weather during the next few days as a series of cold fronts approach, and pass through the area. But beyond Wednesday, skies should clear behind the last of...